pot ORCHID REVIEW. 
EvoL. VI.] AUGUST, 1898. [No. 68. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Soctety will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, West ter, during August, on the 9th and 23rd 
respectively, when the Orchid Se will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o’clock, noon. 
The August meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held on the 11th and 25th. The Orchid Committee meets 
at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 1 o’clock until 4. 
A very striking form of Cattleya Mossiz has flowered in the collection 
of W. H. Almond, Esq., of Alum Scar, near Blackburn, in which the lip is 
bright rose-purple throughout, all trace of yellow having vanished from the 
disc. The sepals and petals are of a lighter shade of rose, and this colour 
extends right along the ovary and pedicel. It flowered out of an importation 
of C. Mossiz, and has all the character of this species. We do not find 
anything quite identical, and should like to know if it keeps constant 
another season. 
Flowers of several handsome hybrids are sent from the establishment of 
Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, including Thunia X Veitchiana superba 
with a spike of eight exceptionally large flowers, Epidendrum x radico-vitel- 
linum with orange-yellow flowers, and the petals now normally developed, E. 
x O'Brienianum and its variety roseum, the pretty Dendrobium x rhodo- 
stoma, a fine form of Sobralia x Veitchii, and the beautiful Disa x 
Veitchii. 
A five-flowered inflorescence of Lzlio-cattleya x elegans is sent from 
the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard, by Mr. Nicholson. © The 
sepals and petals are light rose-purple, the strongly infolded side lobes of 
